...I bet there are more expensive handbags than this and plenty more like it. the bag in question was sold after the incident. what bothers me is who are all these people with 38k to drop on a handbag and how come im not one of them.

I would have guessed 5 or 6 grand was the limit for high end handbags. does Beth buy really spend $40 000 on this kind of stuff? I think Howard would put his foot down on this one. it's just stupid to spend that much on a bag.

I read this story the other day & my eyes kept rolling. I know many people who work in retail (I did it for years & it's utter shit), all over the world & I very much doubt Oprah's version of event are exactly as they occured. There are enough shady, loaded, Nigerian oil barons, willing to drop $35,000 on a crocodile clutch bag, for companies to demand their staff pay universal respect to customers of all ethnicity. In fact, without Middle Eastern, East Asian & African customers, European luxury retail would cease to be. Even if Oprah's (probably newly unemployed) assistant is a secretly-saluting neo-Nazi, he's still a commision junkie (as are all store workers) & wouldn't allow his personal prejudices to affect his paycheck. There's definitely more to this tale than Oprah's revealed.

Of course there is. People all over the world know who Oprah is, they know she's loaded and he wants his commission. Oprah and friends were probably wasting some guy's time wanting to see everything and having no intention of buying...probably even after hours. The guy got fed up and said no.

...I bet there are more expensive handbags than this and plenty more like it. the bag in question was sold after the incident. what bothers me is who are all these people with 38k to drop on a handbag and how come im not one of them.

The truth of the matter is that you can't let anyone that says they want to see a 38K handbag just touch it. It has to be in pristine condition with no fingerprints and absolutely no grease, etc from the skin on the leather. But everything is racism to Oprah. she didn't want to make a big deal.

I bet she showed up as the real Oph-rah... a big fat slob with her weeve all askew... dressed like a pig with a bandana around her giant head. Not like the woman with 7 lbs of makeup on her face and great lighting that is the oprah of tv fame.

I would have guessed 5 or 6 grand was the limit for high end handbags. does Beth buy really spend $40 000 on this kind of stuff? I think Howard would put his foot down on this one. it's just stupid to spend that much on a bag.

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Beth owns several Birkin bags which are upwards of $10,000. I'm not sure how many, where is Lou or Slappy, they would probably know. But more than one or two, that's for sure.